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If you’d like to “check out” ebooks on your iPad, there are TWO ways:The MackinVia app already on your iPad. CLICK HERE for instructions on setting yours up. CLICK HERE for an article on using MackinVia for research.

RBDigital is available in the App Portal. It allows you to check out up to three digital items using your Middle Georgia Regional Library account. If you have a PINES card, you can check out material from the local library!

ONGOING LOGIN – Check school name

TO FIND A BOOK

Tap the “hamburger menu” – 3 horizontal bars – at the top left. Then select the purple bar —-> categories. You will find that the MackinVIA categoreis match the categories in the ARC.

Anytime you wish to return to the categories, look at the upper left – there will be either a stylized back arrow or 3 horizontal bars.

Also under the 3 horizontal bars is the ability to exit (log off). Here is what the Categories view looks like:

Click around to browse through a section. Click on a book to see more information OR to check the book out. Once you check out a book it will automatically download to your iPad.

You can only checkout one book at a time. You can return a book at any time, but when the 2 weeks (or 4 weeks with renewal) timeframe has been reached, the app will check the book back into the database for you. You will have to check it out again

The stylized arrow in the upper left will return to the category page with the book icons.

If you get lost, close the app and start again, or come to the ARC for help.

Remember that EXIT is under the three horizontal bars found in the upper left.

FINDING A SPECIFIC BOOK

Start with the screen above that has a purple “title” bar.

On the right side of this bar is the magnifying glass (universal “search” icon).

Enter the name of the book and tap “go” or tap the magnifying glass.

You will see the book that matches your search.

Click on the black button labelled “Checkout”, which will allow you to read the book for 2 weeks. You can renew it once for an additional 2 weeks, and then the book will automatically be checked back in again.

You can only checkout one book at a time.

Click on your name to see this list.

Favorites = list of books where you clicked the “FAVORITE button.

Notebook has notes you copy/pasted or typed.

Checkouts has the books you have checked out.

Open Now = there are a practically unlimited number
of copies available.

Add to Favorites = there is a favorites list available.

Checkout = there are a limited number of copies available,
similar to the way physical books work.

Two additional buttons appear after a book is checked out:Return and Renew

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